Progress (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Progress (MoC) ## Notes   - [[A path is helpful, but having the confidence is crucial]] - [[Action changes everything]] - [[Aha moment]] - [[Amara's Law]] - [[Ambitious goals make things happen]] - [[Analysis paralysis]] - [[Avoiding hard work]] - [[Be a perfectionist, but don't stay stuck on details]] - [[Being successful at work is a combination of having impact and aligning with management that it is indeed impactful]] - [[Bias for action]] - [[BONSAI method]] - [[Bootstrapping is the hardest thing I've worked on in my entire life]] - [[Career Design]] - [[Celebrate early wins]] - [[Celebrate your wins]] - [[Choice overload]] - [[Continuous Improvement]] - [[Don't give up, the beginning is always the hardest]] - [[Early feedback over late criticism]] - [[Enlightenment Now]] - [[Eureka effect]] - [[Evergreen projects]] - [[Four stages of competence]] - [[Gates' Law]] - [[Habit Stacking]] - [[Highlight of the day]] - [[How the world changed in my lifetime]] - [[How to avoid perfectionism]] - [[How to stop being average]] - [[Inaequo]] - [[Internal goals]] - [[Kaizen]] - [[Kanban Methodology]] - [[Life Design]] - [[Make time for priorities]] - [[Metronomes and momentum]] - [[Minimum Viable Productivity Toolkit]] - [[Most ideas are yet to be discovered]] - [[Most Impactful Next Task (MINT)]] - [[Most Important Task of the Day (MITD)]] - [[Negative feelings act like brakes on our momentum]] - [[Nobody is a 'real' perfectionist]] - [[Overcoming inertia is hard]] - [[Overcoming Perfectionism - How to Break Free from the Enemy of Progress (Article)]] - [[Positive feedback loop]] - [[Pragmatism over formalism every time]] - [[Progress is rarely linear]] - [[Seek feedback, not perfection]] - [[Shipping is crucial for learning]] - [[Signs that perfectionism is holding you back]] - [[Signs that you are falling into the trap of perfectionism]] - [[Small wins]] - [[SMART Goals]] - [[Sources of advantages]] - [[Start before you are ready]] - [[Start small]] - [[The crucial role of setting and pursuing goals]] - [[The Crucial Role of Setting and Pursuing Goals (Article)]] - [[The Gap vs The Gain]] - [[The key to making progress is taking action]] - [[The knowledge gap doesn't matter what matters is taking action]] - [[The Paradox of choice]] - [[The Power of Setting Achievable Goals - How Lowering the Bar Leads to Success (Article)]] - [[The value of smaller goals]] - [[There is a choice between not doing and feeling bad and doing and maybe failing]] - [[Time Horizons]] - [[To measure yourself, compare where you are vs where you started]] - [[Top 10 reasons why goals are so important]] - [[Vicious circle]] - [[Virtuous circle]] - [[Vision board]] - [[Vision grid]] - [[What Are Daily Notes Useful For]] - [[What does success look like to you in 6 months from now]] - [[What time horizons to consider]] - [[Why a ship floats and a stone cannot]] - [[Why focusing on less leads to more]] - [[Why Periodic Reviews are Awesome to Track Progress and Plan Ahead]] - [[Why time horizons matter]] - [[Write. Rewrite. Revise. Then do]] - [[Your habits and routines make you (Article)]] - [[Your value does not only depend on your performances]]  ## Quotes   - [[A bad system will beat a good person every time]] - [[A journey a thousand miles starts with a single step]] - [[A vision is like a dream. It will disappear unless we do something with it]] - [[A year from now, you will wish you had started today]] - [[Allow yourself to be proud of yourself and all the progress you've made. Especially the progress no one else can see]] - [[Always try to leave things in a better shape than when you found them]] - [[An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices. Wait or eat it raw]] - [[An overnight success is ten years in the making]] - [[Anytime you resist perfection and share your work, no matter the feedback, you advance in some way]] - [[Art is never finished, only abandoned]] - [[Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow]] - [[Ask yourself. What am I doing every day that's just the result of inertia. Is this habit, action, choice getting me closer to my goals]] - [[At the end of the day, your level of clarity, priorities, focus, and approach will impact your productivity in much more profound ways than all the tool hopping and tweaking in the world ever could]] - [[At time we crack, only to let the light in]] - [[Being consistent doesn't necessarily mean performing consistently]] - [[Break the mountain, one grain of sand at a time]] - [[Celebrate all your wins. Don't wait for those big breakthroughs. The journey matters way more than you think]] - [[Choose a main focus for the day, and focus all your energy on that before trying to do anything else]] - [[Choose the option that scares you. It's the path to growth]] - [[Clarity of purpose is just the half of the battle. You still need to organize your work so that you can be productive and make progress towards your goal]] - [[Complexity is fractal. You only notice it when you get close enough to it]] - [[Consistency matters a lot more than intensity when it comes to actual productivity]] - [[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow]] - [[Daily 1 % improvements can make miracles in your personal, social, and professional life]] - [[Decisions don't create change. Actions do]] - [[Do the best you can. No one can do more than that]] - [[Don't have a leaky mind]] - [[Don't know what the next step is. Take a break, and let your subconscious find the answer]] - [[Don't think about what you've left behind. The only way to learn is through action. If you want to learn, then act. Do]] - [[Don't try to create the perfect knowledge management system. Start small, accept imperfection and focus on continuous improvement]] - [[Each step, no matter how small, counts]] - [[Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world]] - [[Eighty percent of success is showing up]] - [[Engage in tasks that ignite your passion, for they will drive you forward with unyielding force]] - [[Every morning you have two choices. Continue to sleep with your dreams, or get up and chase them]] - [[Everything worthwhile is done with other people]] - [[Failing to take action allows us to escape responsibility]] - [[Focus on big things but fix papercuts]] - [[Focus on improving yourself, not proving yourself]] - [[Focus on now, make it better and the future will get brighter as a result]] - [[Fortunate are those who take the first steps]] - [[Get going, then get good]] - [[Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress]] - [[How to know you are doing something meaningful]] - [[I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb]] - [[Identity lags reality by 1-2 years. There’s a lot of psychological fallout from a rapid change in status]] - [[If the why is powerful, the how is easy]] - [[If you aren’t willing to suck, you’re never going to get good]] - [[If you can't measure it, you can't improve it]] - [[If you don't start, you can't make progress]] - [[If you want progress, then develop a bias for action]] - [[If you want to make progress, then limit your options]] - [[If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress]] - [[Instead of waiting (sometimes for years) for bigger wins to happen, you can use small wins to propel you]] - [[It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop]] - [[It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it]] - [[It is by walking that the path is made]] - [[It takes time to build good things]] - [[It's always useful to think about the end goal, but it's also useful to think about the reachable small wins]] - [[It’s not about finding the perfect tools and hacks. It's about strategy and execution]] - [[It's now or never. If it's not now, it means later. But later could turn into never. Fight against the natural tendency to do stuff 'later']] - [[Just get going with something. Movement creates awareness and activity. So just pick something you feel like doing]] - [[Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Being willing is not enough. We must do]] - [[Knowledge is composed of an infinite number of infinite ladders]] - [[Let fruitful processes grow and let friction do the pruning]] - [[Life is a marathon, not a sprint]] - [[Lowering the bar doesn't mean setting your sights on mediocrity. It means recognizing the power of incremental progress]] - [[Make a dent in the world make it a better place transform something into something better]] - [[Many people who are obsessed with productivity are actually stuck in a trap of endless optimization. People seem to forget that productivity means getting things done, not just planning to]] - [[Momentum comes from taking action. Waiting doesn't help]] - [[More often than not, better can come later]] - [[Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years]] - [[Never confuse movement with action]] - [[Never mistake activity for achievement]] - [[No plan for your life will survive contact with reality]] - [[Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little]] - [[Nothing is impossible. But today I did nothing]] - [[Only compare yourself to yourself]] - [[Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go]] - [[Organizing yourself is a journey, not a destination]] - [[Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success]] - [[Perfect is the enemy of good]] - [[Perfection is an illusion]] - [[Perfectionism is the illusion that all details matter equally]] - [[Perfectionism keeps us from making mistakes but also from making progress]] - [[Persistence beats timing. Execution beats luck. Not immediately, but eventually]] - [[Progress and knowledge show no fear]] - [[Progress doesn't need to be spectacular. All that matters is that it moves the needle forward, even a tiny bit]] - [[Progress is the engine of motivation]] - [[Progress only comes through action]] - [[Progress requires action. Action requires clear goals and objectives]] - [[Reality doesn't care about abstract intentions]] - [[Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make big choices in life]] - [[Setting high level direction is far superior to specific outcomes]] - [[Setting the bar lower often enables progress and helps avoid needless stress]] - [[Slow is smooth and smooth is fast]] - [[Small wins will keep you motivated, and will make it easier for you to celebrate your progress and feel proud]] - [[Software-as-a-Service doesn't have a final version. It only gets closer to being its most useful version yet]] - [[Some of the best improvements are through deletion not addition]] - [[Success is a doing]] - [[Take imperfect action today, rather than dream about perfect action tomorrow]] - [[Take small bites every day]] - [[The best way out is always through]] - [[The bigger the ambition, the slower you need to go]] - [[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn]] - [[The devil is in the details]] - [[The journey to achieving your biggest dreams begins with a single, manageable step]] - [[The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing]] - [[The people who move the fastest aren't doing more work. They're just continuing to apply the right efforts to their bottlenecks faster than everyone else]] - [[The person who captures ideas consistently sees more progress than the person who relies on memory alone]] - [[The secret to incremental success is looking for incremental lessons]] - [[The time I kill is killing me]] - [[The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score]] - [[The worse thing you can do is wait for it to be perfect]] - [[There's no right time, just time, and what you choose to do with it. Don't wait for the perfect moment, make it count]] - [[There's something lovely about doing things slowly and at my own pace]] - [[There's zero point in climbing a mountain if you forget to enjoy the view]] - [[Things don’t have to change the world to be important]] - [[To measure yourself, compare where you are versus where you started]] - [[Unclear goals, not a busy schedule, are what really hold you back]] - [[Water dripping day by day wears the hardest rock away]] - [[We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral. We have already climbed many steps]] - [[We discover what to do next by doing and delivering the current thing]] - [[We should all have big and hairy goals. Even if those are too ambitious and impossible to achieve, working towards such goals will often help us realize our full potential. We will also be surprised by how far we can go]] - [[What keeps me writing is the idea that what I write can change what my readers think and, by extension, change the world]] - [[What matters is not the tools, but what you achieve with those]] - [[When one thing evolves, everything around it evolves as well]] - [[When the bar is set lower and when you focus on making meaningful progress, step by step, you get to focus more of your attention on how to move forward more effectively. This encourages experimentation and fosters creativity]] - [[When there's no way back, all you can do is focus on the best way to move forward]] - [[When we try to become better and improve everything around us improves as well]] - [[When you feel like you’re procrastinating, break down tasks into micro-steps Too simple to stall, too quick to quit. Each tick is a win, and a series of ticks is a day well spent]] - [[When you focus on the good, the good becomes better]] - [[Wishes don't create change. Decisions do]] - [[You are what you focus on most of the time]] - [[You don't find a solution without having a problem first]] - [[You don't have to know every step, just ask yourself. What is my next best step]] - [[You don't know what you don't measure]] - [[You don’t need to do more. You need to do what matters most, on your terms]] - [[You don’t need to do more. You need to do what matters most. Now. On your terms]] - [[You need to think small to win big]] - [[You’ll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary]] - [[You'll never feel ready because ready isn't a feeling. It's a decision]] - [[Your enemy isn't mediocrity. It's inaction]] - [[Your first step becomes a draft for the next]]